Lughnassadh greetings!
Aug. 1st, 2005 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenagreyI hope the first harvest is bountiful for you!
In our house, we celebrate this sabbat as the 'bread holiday.' I didn't bake my own bread this year because I found an irresistible loaf at the market: rosemary and white raisins. We had a very simple but festive meal of cheese, bread, tomatoes bought at a farm stand, followed by fresh blueberries and strawberries with a light custard sauce.
I set a very simple altar. On a sky blue cloth, a pentagram made from tied stems of wheat. I placed a small votive calendar in each of the five triangles of the pentagram, and the censer stands in the middle. That's all. The grain honors Lugh, and the bowl shaped censer honors the Lady.
What exactly does this ordinary witch harvest at this time of year? Certainly not fields of grain! I harvest accomplishments, work put to hand during the growing days of the year that I can now cut and examine in the gently lengthening night. This year, I have a healthy crop of creative and spiritual accomplishments. This journal is a bit of both.
What have you harvested? What is still growing for you?
In our house, we celebrate this sabbat as the 'bread holiday.' I didn't bake my own bread this year because I found an irresistible loaf at the market: rosemary and white raisins. We had a very simple but festive meal of cheese, bread, tomatoes bought at a farm stand, followed by fresh blueberries and strawberries with a light custard sauce.
I set a very simple altar. On a sky blue cloth, a pentagram made from tied stems of wheat. I placed a small votive calendar in each of the five triangles of the pentagram, and the censer stands in the middle. That's all. The grain honors Lugh, and the bowl shaped censer honors the Lady.
What exactly does this ordinary witch harvest at this time of year? Certainly not fields of grain! I harvest accomplishments, work put to hand during the growing days of the year that I can now cut and examine in the gently lengthening night. This year, I have a healthy crop of creative and spiritual accomplishments. This journal is a bit of both.
What have you harvested? What is still growing for you?
